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As part of a Friday segment on MTP Daily on MSNBC, correspondent Morgan Radford blamed Fox News, Tucker Carlson, and Glenn Greenwald for online death threats and sexual harassment directed at female journalists, which included Washington Post tech columnist Taylor Lorenz tying such attacks to her PTSD.
Host Chuck Todd came out of commercial and set the table, “The latest government statistics show 1 in 3 women under the age of 35 have experienced a type of essentially sexual harassment online. It’s often under-reported and many times not taken seriously despite its serious risk to mental health and physical safety.” To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported.
Todd then introduced Radford who launched into a recorded segment with Lorenz and The 19th ’s Kate Sosin, “Journalist Taylor Lorenz is a columnist for the Washington Post and was targeted one year ago in a segment on Fox News.”
After playing a brief clip of Carlson declaring that, “She’s at the very top of journalism’s repulsive little food chain,” Radford continued, “Host Tucker Carlson mocking her after she called for an end to online harassment. Now she’s at the center of a new study by NYU researchers, among the first to actually quantify online hate against female journalists.”
The point of Carlson’s segment wasn’t mocking Lorenz for being the worst parts of the internet, but pointing out that she claims to be against harassment but, because she isn’t very good at her job , she ends up being what she claims oppose.
Of course, MSNBC didn’t mention that Lorenz’s inaccurate reporting that led to the segment and of course, it doesn’t justify death threats or […]
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